'Which way did he turn when he left you--towards Mr.Keller's house or the other way ?' The landlady said, 'Towards Mr.Keller's house.' Without another word, mamma took me by the arm.

'It's time we were home again,' she said--and we went back at once to the house." "You were too late, of course, to find the man there ?" "Yes, David--but we heard of him.

Mamma asked Joseph if anyone had called while we were out.

Joseph said a stranger had called, and had inquired if Madame Fontaine was at home.

Hearing that she was out, he had said, 'I think I had better write to her.